Brain Balancing Alignment:
A balanced brain is our natural state. When our brain function is balanced this means that both hemispheres of our brain are functioning equally with equal energy distributed from each side of our brain to the opposite side of our body.
Remember that heath is defined as a condition of wholeness where all of your organs are functioning 100 percent all of the time. So, by definition we need a balanced brain energy flow to be healthy!
We are made to handle short term, high level stress. When you become stressed your body immediately shifts to your dominant side brain to react quicker, and your adrenal glands release a massive amount of adrenaline.
This is the “fight or flight” mechanism. This is part of our natural self-defense. When the stress situation resolves, our brain and body should go back into balance within the hour. This is what is supposed to happen.
In America we live in a constant busy state feeling there is never enough time for all that needs to be done. We are not made for this constant state of ongoing low to moderate level stress. This comes from things like the recession, family issues, kids activities, work stress, financial stresses, toxic stresses, nutritional and emotional stresses to name only a few. This constant state of stress causes our brains to shift into our dominant side and stay there in a chronic stress state. Our adrenal glands live in a state of urgency and become wore down over time, like a dying battery.
We end up with about 70 percent of our energy flowing down the dominant side of our bodies and around 30 percent down the other side. This creates a state with one side of our bodies weak and the other side overly tensed. This allows for our posture to adapt over time with a high hip and shoulder on the dominant side and a pronounced increase in muscle tension, spasms and strength. The other side becomes weaker, more flaccid muscles and cannot hold structural balance in the body allowing for the postural imbalances, abnormal spinal curvatures, and even scoliosis to develop.
Depending on the severity of one’s stress level, after a few weeks or months our dominant side brain tires and our brain lateralization will suddenly shift dominance to the other side of our brain. This often happens during the night while we are resting and one often wakes of very stiff, tight and sore wondering what they did to cause this. Most people are right handed, so we originally shifted to our left brain with more tension down our right side. Now we shifted brain dominance to the right brain and relatively we wake with more muscular tension and strength down the left side of our body. This is a chronic stressed state and is how 98 percent of our new patients present.
This is also why it takes two occipital decompression alignments to balance most patients the first visit. Our brains must retrace, or “uncross” back to the original stress compensation pattern with the first alignment; then shift back to equal brain balance with the second alignment. From this point on it usually will only require one alignment per visit to balance ones brain. However, our stress levels keep growing and we are seeing the occasional patient who is under so much stress that they keep crossing over more than once.
The stress levels are now so high that patients will not achieve full balance from a chiropractic adjustment alone for the last few years. There are many great chiropractors in our region and they do an excellent job. However, with the severity of chronic stress in our society, people will not balance, and if they did balance, they will not hold balance for more than a few minutes once they are moving around, walking or in motion. This is because the brain will not balance with chiropractic care alone anymore.
--Dr. Jones
